Bois Precious
Iris and patchouli meet like old acquaintances who've each spent time abroad—one返urning with powdery restraint, the other darkened by earth and shadow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Iris85
- Patchouli80
- Powdery70
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Iris
- Patchouli
- Leather
- Ambergris
- Vanilla
- Honey
By the editors · 2 min readIris and patchouli meet like old acquaintances who've each spent time abroad—one返urning with powdery restraint, the other darkened by earth and shadow. The opening feels deliberate, almost formal, as if the perfume is deciding how much of itself to reveal. Iris hovers cool and slightly metallic before patchouli emerges, not the hippie sweetness but something drier, more resinous.
As it settles, leather appears with surprising softness, more suede than tack room, while honey and vanilla work beneath the surface to round sharp edges without turning saccharine. Ambergris and musk anchor everything in a skin-close veil that feels warm but never cloying. The effect is oddly architectural—structured yet breathable, composed without being rigid.
This is for those who appreciate perfume as construction rather than decoration, who want something that holds its shape through a long day without announcing every entrance.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
